As the world’s largest and most subsidized fishing fleet, China has a significant effect on ocean ecosystems around the globe. Oceana analyzed China’s fishing* activity worldwide between 2019 and 2021 using data from Global Fishing Watch** (GFW) — an independent nonprofit founded by Oceana in partnership with Google and SkyTruth. The analysis, outlined in a new fact sheet here, sheds light on China’s global fishing footprint, which includes over 51,000 China-flagged fishing vessels. However even this is only a partial view … Read more

The U.S. is home to vibrant and diverse fisheries that provide a living for more than 1.7 million people and result in nearly $200 billion in revenue annually. From gumbo festivals to backyard clambakes, seafood is an integral part of American culture. However, these traditions and livelihoods are under threat from illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. … Read more

Earlier this month, Oceana and WWF convened a virtual roundtable of experts to discuss one of the greatest threats facing our oceans: illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The expert panel included: Dr. Daniel Pauly, Oceana board member, and founder and director of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Oceans and Fisheries; Ray Mabus, former Secretary of the Navy; Ame Sagiv, director of forced labor and human trafficking for Humanity United; and Nathan Rickard, trade counsel for … Read more

Your seafood dinner likely passed through many hands before it made its way to your plate. Fish can be caught in one ocean by a vessel flagged to a distant country, transferred at sea to a vessel flagged to another country, then offloaded for processing. The processed fish is then transported to another country (potentially … Read more